The 'extremely ancient' chromosome that isn't: A forensic bioinformatic investigation of Albert Perry's X-degenerate portion of the y chromosome

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1111-1116

  Elhaik, Eran ^a,b   Tatarinova, Tatiana V ^c   Klyosov, Anatole A ^d   Graur, Dan ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Academy of DNA Genealogy   (United States)

^e University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

A00 haplotype; Albert Perry; interbreeding; TMRCA; Y chromosome; Y chromosomal Adam

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME; FOSSIL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; X CHROMOSOME;

HOMO SAPIENS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84906276648     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.303     Document Type: Article

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